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Indoor event in a hotel ballroom with cream walls and gold damask panels. A man with a tall, swept-up dark hair bun and a long rudraksha mala wears a rust-orange robe and walks forward through the seated audience. Behind him, a woman in a rust-orange sari with hair in a bun stands, and other women in white tops with orange shawls sit with hands pressed in anjali. Many seated attendees wear orange shawls and orange tops; some have palms joined. Water bottles are set on a table at left, a black speaker stands at right, and green plants decorate the stage edge. The man's appearance is consistent with the Swamiji (probable) candidate: long swept-back hair, saffron robe and rudraksha mala.